What Skills must Intermediate-Level Mining Engineering Students in Vietnam have? (Illustrative photo)

Specifically, Circular 50/2018/TT-BLĐTBXH stipulates that intermediate-level mining engineering is a field where practitioners perform tasks such as excavation and support maintenance of underground galleries with any slope and an area of ≥ 1.5 m² in rock to facilitate mining exploitation through tunneling methods. This meets the requirements of level 4 within the Vietnamese National Qualifications Framework. Accordingly, learners need to attain the following skills:

• Operate equipment: electric drills, pneumatic drills; cyclic loaders with scoops, scraping loaders, side-dumping loaders, apron feeders, conveyors, winches; local ventilation fans;
• Organize tunneling in coal, and rock excavation using competent and safe blasting technology;
• Support underground galleries with timber or metal frameworks;
• Strengthen vulnerable gallery sections by using forms and additional supports;
• Proficiently use self-rescue methods, measure and monitor mine gases, and provide first aid to accident victims;
• Utilize basic information technology according to regulations; exploit, handle, and apply IT in specialized tasks of the industry or trade;
• Use basic foreign languages, achieving level 1/6 within the Vietnamese foreign language competency framework; apply foreign languages to specialized tasks of the industry or trade.

Additionally, mining engineering practitioners mainly work in underground galleries at mineral extraction mines using tunneling methods, with main tasks including: breaking rocks and minerals using mechanical or blasting methods; shoveling rocks and minerals manually or operating mechanical equipment; transporting rocks and minerals using manual carts, winches, conveyors, aprons, or electric trains; transporting materials using manual tools or specialized equipment; supporting tunnels using different frameworks such as timber or metal, and bolts; construction tasks, including formwork, reinforcement; reinforcing weakened frameworks, repairing damaged support structures or tunnel sections with damaged, excessively deformed frames; participating in handling incidents during production such as tunnel collapses, gas explosions, or underground water outbursts;

Mining engineering workers operate in shifts, in conditions without natural light, and harsh environments regarding temperature, air quality, noise, and dust... Some production tasks are physically demanding and potentially dangerous, thus the work is collective in nature; therefore, workers must possess good health, professional dedication, sufficient competency, and skills to perform tasks, solid professional expertise, and the ability to work well in teams.

Details are available at Circular 50/2018/TT-BLDTBXH, effective in Vietnam from February 10, 2019.

Ty Na

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